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Polar Express

Friday, November 22, 2013

Toddlers are extraordinary beings. They are the only humans who can appropriately lose control of their emotions without shocking those around them. I mean, we expect two-year-olds to throw tantrums and be a little crazy (okay, a lot crazy).

Toddlers are going through so much change in their little lives/bodies/worlds, that it's within their natural development to experience polarizing emotions within a single moment. There's nothing rational, balance, comfortable, or reasonable about it. And, as a parent, it can be a roller coaster to go from this...

...to this...

...all within a very short time frame.

You can see why God made them cute, right? You can understand how maddening it is to be the one who helps contain the emotions that so rapidly cycle up and down throughout the day!?

Today, I'm so grateful God made kids unreasonably adorable to match their irrational development. I'm so glad that there are the "He's got the whole world in His Hands" moments of the day to help us moms get through the "WHY did daddy have to go to work?!" tantrums. I'm so glad that I am here to witness the good and the bad, to help channel the emotions into a healthy place of understanding, and to get to be the one that hugs through the unknowns when I've no other impulse or notion as to what to do.

I'm so glad toddlers are ridiculously out of their minds. Their polarizing expressway to crazyville helps keep me on track to remembering how out of control we are as humans without a solid God to look to for guidance and direction.

Thank you, God, for one more day of survival with toddlers. Moms - take a deep breath - hug your babes and know you are not alone. The crazy train has many, many passengers, but the trip is short. Let's do our best to savor the view along the way.

What are you thankful for?? LAST CHANCE to COMMENT and enter the GIVE AWAY!!!!

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Emily Pardy is a 30-something writer living in Nashville, Tennessee. She has her Masters in Marriage & Family Therapy and loves coffee, Jesus, and her husband. She has three bodacious daughters who bring her constant joy, fear, and everything in between. When she's not writing, she's probably over-thinking her next book or reheating her coffee for the millionth time.